360                              Laws of Maryland                        Ch. 103

only and does not affect or impair any other portion of the petition
or petitions. Following the verification, a duly authorized employee
of the Board shall endorse on each paper the number of signatures
verified by the employee and shall endorse and sign the paper. For
the purpose of the endorsement, each paper shall contain a blank
space for the endorsement. The papers shall be delivered to the
Boards not later than 9:00 P.M. on the Monday which is ten weeks
or seventy days before the day on which the primary election should
be held under the primary election law. All papers delivered to a
Board pursuant to this subsection and required to be filed with the
[Secretary of State] State Administrative Board of Election Laws
pursuant to Section 4A-2 shall, after verification and endorsement
as herein required, be mailed or delivered by the Board to the
[Secretary of State] State Administrative Board of Election Laws,
within thirty (30) days after the primary election. The [Secretary
of State] State Administrative Board of Election Laws shall deter-
mine the sufficiency of the percentage of registered voters signing
petitions in those cases in which candidates file certificates of nomi-
nation or of candidacy in [his] its office. In all other instances,
such determination shall be made by the local boards.

8-1.

All nominations shall be attested to by a certificate of nomination.

(a) If the nomination is by means of a primary election, the
certificate shall be signed and acknowledged by the persons whose
duty it may be, by party usage, to declare the result of such election
in the manner prescribed for a nomination by a convention, but no
party emblem or device of any kind shall be added to said certificate,
and if any such emblem or device should be added, it shall not be
printed upon the ballot by the [Secretary of State] State Administra-
tive Board of Election Laws or any of the boards.

8-3.

The [Secretary of State] State Administrative Board of Election
Laws and the several boards shall cause to be retained in their
respective offices for two years all certificates of candidacy and of
nomination filed with them under the provisions of this article. All
such certificates shall be open to public inspection.

8-4.

Not less than thirty days before a general election to fill any
public office the [Secretary of State] State Administrative Board
of Election Laws shall certify to the board of each county and of
the City of Baltimore, within which any of the voters may by law
vote for candidates for any office, the name, party affiliation and
residence of each person nominated for such office, as specified in
the certificates of nominations filed with the [Secretary of State]
State Administrative Board of Election Laws.

9-2.

(d) Certification by [Secretary of State] State Administrative
Board of Elections Laws.—When such certificate is filed with the
[Secretary of State, he] State Administrative Board of Election